Holly Hunter bags stage role

Actress to star in Off Broadway's 'Vandal'

Holly Hunter has booked an Off Broadway gig as the topliner of “The Vandal,” the new play set to world preem in January at downtown venue the Flea.

Zach Grenier (“33 Variations”) and Noah Robbins also will appear in the new work by Hamish Linklater, best known as an actor (“The New Adventures of Old Christine,” Broadway’s “Seminar”). Flea a.d. Jim Simpson helms the play, described as a story about death and vandalism in Kingston, N.Y.

It’s been a while since Hunter showed up on the Gotham boards; her last Off Broadway stint was in 1998, when she appeared in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of Beth Henley’s “Impossible Marriage.”